Reminds me of Mexico. I’ve been down to a supplier there several times and you’ll see class 8 trucks and trailers with hubs getting torn apart and tires replaced all the time. How they move such heavy stuff out in the middle of the road I have no idea, but they get it done.

It’s difficult on economy standards. On the one hand, I think it benefits everyone to have more efficient cars, though it might not be instant benefit. If the costs to achieve greater efficiency outweigh the benefit of cheaper running costs, it’s really a wash and perhaps of limited use. If my new cars costs an…

But can you use any controller from any system with it? That would be cool. An emulation box that can play any old game with its original control system.

I had a friend in college that had a 3 rotor engine built for an RX7. Got a ride in it once and it was definitely a wild machine. Hadn’t fully broken it in yet though, so he wasn’t supposed to go over 7K rpm.

Wait, it has fuel injection? That’s crazy. I figured a dirt cheap car would have just had a hose on top of a throttle blade with a weak fuel pump that dripped some gas in every once in a while.

I could see that. I figured pollen was probably a larger molecule or whatever that was easier to filter, but it seemed like bacterial and viral stuff was quite a bit smaller.

Okay, that’s kinda what I was thinking. Made sense to filter out stuff like spit or liquids, but not so much vapors.

Just out of curiosity, have they ever done studies on how effective masks like these actually are? It seems to me that without a tight seal over your mouth and nose they are still going to let stuff in and out. Are they even a tight enough weave to filter out common bacteria or viruses? If you can breathe through…

Kind of, but with at least a nod to physics. The pulling power thing is totally random as it’s based on whatever locomotive you look at and could be a set of them connected for all I know. I just did a Google search for pulling power of a freight train and top fuel dragster weight and went from there.

The deceleration comment just reminds me of the instruction manual for my old Sega Game Gear game Road Rash. It was a motorcycle game that had the statement “The fastest bike in the game can take you from 0-60 in 3 seconds. A tree can take you from 100-0 in NO SECONDS”.

Ah, but I said pulling like a freight train, which can have a tractive effort of several hundred thousand pounds. Say 100,000 lbs even, with a mass of 2320 lbs (minimum top fuel dragster weight) and F=ma gives you an acceleration of ~1388 ft/s^2, or ~43g.

Maybe it’s accounting for reaction time? I think it’s mostly stuff that’s measured in the car though. The forces are not exactly consistent in a situation like that, so you might be pulling like a freight train from 0-50 and then not quite as hard from 50-100, but I’m not really sure.

Streetable as in road legal? Either way it’s always a moving target. The limit of tires 10 years ago is not the same as what they can make today.

I tend to agree. My family has rarely ever bought a car brand new off a lot. We’re also mechanically inclined and I’ll work on just about anything, so used really doesn’t bother me as much as the person that would have to take it somewhere for service.

I’ve never been a vacation person, so I’d rather have a car, but I don’t think I could make myself do payments like that. I’d rather have less large payments than stretch something out that far. I just think of a fun car as a vacation you can experience every day.

• The Chiron experiences monsoon like rain conditions for 30 minutes to check for water leaks.

Fair, the price will be a big question mark and likely not the most affordable. Then again there are crazy people who will pay $60K+ for a truck, so evidently loans have good interest rates, people are making more money, or the more likely case, people are just dumb.

The backseat is really quite comfortable too. A bit difficult to get in depending on your flexibility, but I sat back there for a 9 hour road trip and it was nice.

I think it has a pretty reasonable user base. It’s those people that have/want Chargers and Challengers that I could see looking at these because they need the extra space. It’s not that a Charger (or even Challenger) to some degree aren’t roomy with storage space, but for a hot rod guy that has a new family this…

With low volume cars there’s no such thing as a real average value in my opinion. Where you live in the country and what time of year it is can have large effects on the price of a car on any given day. Collectors might be willing to pay top dollar as well while the average guy that just wants a fun car to drive…